Part XIII
Kakyuu (see I promised I 'd put her in!) sat alone at the kitchen table when she heard some one come home. "Hello?" She called out into the other room. Seiya walked into the kitchen when he heard Kakyuu's voice. "Oh, you're home early." She commented as she poured him a cup of tea.
"Yeah, well I guess I'm just not cut out for this dating thing." He accepted the cup and thanked her.
"You do realize that they're not going to let you out of this until they think you're over Usagi."
"I know. Where are they?" He just now realized that Kakyuu must have been home by herself.
"Taiki actually had a date and I have no idea where Yaten is, probably following poor Taiki." Kakyuu shook her head at the thought of Yaten's head popping up from behind some bushes with camo paint on.
Seiya laughed because he too had the same thought. Soon he was on his feet again and searching for the phone. "Hello? Is Oda. I mean Usagi there?" It felt weird to say her name like that.
Usagi's mother was on the other end of the phone. "Mamoru is that you?" She asked.
That one hurt and made Seiya wince. "No mamma, this is Seiya." He replied hesitantly.
"Oh hello, no Usagi isn't here, she actually left a little while ago to go to only god knows where!"
"Thank you."
"I'll tell her you called. Ja."
When Seiya hung up the phone he looked over at Kakyuu who was just shaking her head at the table. "What?"
"You called her as soon as you got in the door from going out on a date with another girl, you don't think that is a little weird?"
"No." Seiya said as he put his jacket on and walked out the door.
It was getting cold out now that winter was coming and if you didn't wear your jacket out the wind would cut right through you. It was already dark and not many people were in the park that night and maybe that's why he spotted Usagi sitting on the bench so easily. "Odango? What are you doing here?"
Usagi looked up at him with a smile. "Nothing, I just like to come here and watch the moon."
Seiya took a seat next to her and turned his eyes up to see what she was admiring. It was truly magnificent and he could easily see why she would want to come here and stare at it. Usagi looked over at Seiya as she watched him look up at the round orb. She found herself studying his facial features and thinking how nice they looked bathed in the silver moonlight. He must have felt her staring at him because he asked what was wrong.
"Nothing. I was just thinking."
"Odango, I have a favor to ask you." Seiya continued to look at her, she seemed to be fiddling with a ring on her finger. "Will you do it?"
"Depends on what it is."
"Will you come and hang out with me next weekend so that I don't have to get set up on anymore of these stupid dates?" Usagi wasn't expecting that one. "I mean it wouldn't be like a date or anything, I know how you feel about that, it would just be two friends hanging out. You're the only one who hasn't been trying to set me up and I just need a break from it and if they see that I already have plans maybe they'll leave me alone." It was the truth, he wasn't just trying to think of excuses to get her to come over.
"I wish I could but I can't." Usagi looked down again at the ring she was playing with.
"Why not? I told you it was only a friend thing."
"No, that's not it. I'm going to America next weekend. I'm going to be staying there for a week actually. Mamo doesn't have classes because there it is some holiday called Thanksgiving, since he is coming home at Christmas time he didn't want to come home for this holiday too so I decided to go there and see him." Usagi looked up from her ring to see Seiya's face. "I'm sorry, I'm sure you can find some one else to do that with."
Seiya looked down at his watch and faked surprise. "Well look at the time, I've got to go! See you at school Monday." He called as he began running off in the night.
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"We couldn't set him up on any dates this weekend, we were all too busy with practice, but next weekend is a different story!" Yaten snickered.
Yaten, Taiki, Makoto, Ami, Minako and Usagi were all sitting around enjoying their lunches, well actually Usagi was enjoying everyone's lunch. "Where is Seiya?" Usagi asked as she sampled some of Ami's lunch. She was actually scared to try Yaten's, she wasn't sure if he had made it himself and didn't want to take the chance.
"I don't know, probably trying to pick up some girl before we set him up with one again." Yaten noticed Usagi looking at his lunch with displeasure.
Seiya was picking up girls now? For some reason this actually hurt Usagi. 'Why would I care if he's trying to pick up girls? It's not like I'm with him or anything.' She thought to herself.
The days went on, Monday Seiya had a date with another questionable girl that Yaten had set him up with. Usagi found herself picking apart every little thing that was wrong with her. Was she becoming jealous? No.
Tuesday Seiya had a date with an intellectual girl that Taiki and Ami had set him up with together. Usagi thought about how much smarter and sophisticated this girl was than her. Why was she comparing herself to the girls Seiya was dating. Was she becoming jealous? No. well.
Wednesday Seiya had a date with a sports oriented girl that Minako had set him up with from the volleyball team. Usagi bet that this girl didn't snack all day long and probably took care of herself better than she did. Was she becoming jealous? Maybe a little, but it was just of the girls and what they were that she couldn't be.
Thursday Seiya had a date with a girl from the cooking club that Makoto had set him up with. Usagi thought about the burnt cookies that she always made and how Seiya had imagined her handing him a bag of burnt cookies. He knew she couldn't cook. Was she becoming jealous? Yes.
Friday Seiya had a date with a girl that they had all picked out. She embodied everything that the previous ones had but combined it all in one. She was great. Was she becoming jealous? Extremely!
Saturday morning came and Usagi had all of her bags packed and ready to go. Haruka would be there soon to pick her up to bring her to the airport. Usagi had learned an important lesson from Ami, never tell your friends when you're actually leaving so you don't have to say goodbye. Usagi told everyone that she was leaving at three but it was really noon.
A horn blew outside and it made Usagi jump out of her thoughts. She gathered all of her things and headed down stairs. "Hello Kitten." Haruka said as she took the luggage from the smaller girl.
"All set?" Usagi's mother asked coming in from the living room.
"Yeah, I'll call you when I get there. Bye!" Usagi kissed her mother goodbye as she followed Haruka out the door.
When Haruka had finished putting the bags in the trunk she hopped in next to Usagi and started up the car. For some reason Haruka like to drive without the radio on, but for once this didn't bother Usagi. It gave her a peaceful moment to concentrate on her thoughts. She couldn't wait to see Mamoru and the 'new' man he had become but she also didn't want to leave Seiya behind to the lovesick girls of Japan. She had slowly realized that she had feelings for him over the past week and it tore her apart to see him with other girls. She knew that it was selfish wanting both of them but she couldn't help it.
"This little shit thinks he's hot stuff!" Haruka's voice broke Usagi's thoughts as she noticed a bike weaving in and out of traffic. There were two people on it and the passenger, who had a very petite frame, was holding on tightly to the waist of the driver.
Haruka gunned the car and she heard the engine roar as they cut along the highway coming up to the bike. The bike swerved in front of the car seemingly to egg Haruka on. It worked. No way was she going to let some little bike twerp beat her at a motor race. "Hold on Kitten." Haruka looked over at Usagi with a devilish grin and down shifted the car.
Usagi's head was forced back into the headrest as the sports car went speeding by the bike. When she regained control of her head she looked over and realized that it was Seiya driving the bike. Due to the tint on Haruka's windows, he wouldn't have been able to see that Usagi was in the car, but she was sure he knew it was Haruka driving and that made this even more of a competition.
Seiya dropped the clutch and sped in front again. Usagi could see that every time he used the gas the girl on the back of the bike would cling to him tighter and force her body up against his. This made Usagi even more jealous and now she didn't even want to get on the plane, she wanted to stay here and protect Seiya like he had asked her too.
The race was soon over as Seiya got off at his exit and Haruka congratulated herself. "That little shit is nothing compared to the great Haruka!" She laughed evilly as she pulled up to the airport.
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Usagi's vacation with Mamoru was soon coming to an end and this was her last day with him. They were sitting in his dorm room while Usagi got her things together to leave. She had actually had tons of fun coming to America and hanging out with Mamoru. As she had thought he was a totally different person and she liked it. She would hang out with him every day if he would stay like this but the problem was she knew she could never fall in love with him if he would stay like this.
"Do you mind if I don't write to you every single day like I have been? It's hard to find the time." Usagi didn't know how he would react to this but she wasn't that worried.
"I would have thought you had plenty of time in detention!" He laughed at her and she had to join him. "But seriously, no I don't mind. Actually there was something I wanted to talk to you about."
Uh oh. people just don't say that kind of thing when some one is about to leave to go home. "Oh yeah, and what would that be?" Usagi asked already knowing it wasn't good.
Mamoru laughed. "Well I think we can both say that I've changed a bit."
"Are you going to break up with me?" Usagi asked putting her suitcase to the side.
"Usagi, don't act like this is a big surprise or something. I know you've been having the same feelings as me." Mamoru tried to defend himself. "I wasn't sure if this was what I wanted so I decided to wait and tell you after we got to spend some time together again. Now that we have I realize that it wouldn't work out."
"What do you mean you know I was having the same feelings?" It was true but how did he know about what she was thinking? She had never told anyone.
Mamoru walked over to his desk and pulled out a stack of letters rubber banded together neatly. (This is Mamoru of course we're talking about here!) "Read these letters you sent me and tell me if you find one that doesn't mention Seiya Kou's name in them." He tossed the lump of letters on her lap. "I'm not mad, I understand because the same thing happened to me."
Mamoru sat down on the bed next to Usagi who just looked at the letters in shock. Mamoru had figured out her heart before she did. "But what about our future? What about Chibi-Usa?" Usagi's voice was pleading.
"I knew the time would come when I would have to confess." Mamoru put an arm around Usagi which she quickly slumped off. "There is no Chibi-Usa, there never was."
"WHAT!!" Usagi looked like she had just stuck her finger in an electric socket. "Then how do you explain that little girl with pig tails that calls herself our daughter?"
Mamoru took a deep breath in and began the story. "Chibi-Usa's name isn't Chibi-Usa. She is Ami's daughter from the future. Sailor Pluto came to me before Chibi-Usa came to tell me that you would fall in love with some one else in the future and that we wouldn't be together. It broke my heart to hear this and so I thought of ways to keep you with me. I asked Pluto to find a little girl that I could pretend was my daughter so that you would see that we had a future together. When she did I put her hair up like yours. That is also why I originally broke up with you back then. I was still so hurt from hearing this news that I couldn't face you." Usagi was crying by now.
"I can't believe you and Pluto lied to me all of these years." She sobbed. "That can't be true, how could that girl transform and use the silver crystal?"
"She could transform because she was a senshi and that wasn't a real silver crystal, it was just a hunk of gem. Those were her powers. If you and I actually had a daughter she wouldn't have been a senshi. Only two senshi's can create a new senshi otherwise the sailor crystals would just keep being reborn. Think about it this way, at least you get to see that little girl you fell in love with in the future." Mamoru tried to comfort her, but she really didn't seem that upset, more pissed.
"I don't understand. How can two senshi's create a child when they're all female?"
Mamoru gave Usagi a twisted look. "They're all females? So who is this Seiya Kou guy you've been talking about?"
Then it hit Usagi. The Lights. That means that Ami had a child with one of them in the future. Usagi smiled as she could only imagine Ami with Taiki and thought of how perfect they were together. "I'm still amazed that you figured out what was going through my head before I did."
"Why? Don't tell me you just figured it out?"
"Yeah, actually I did. Right before I came here." She laughed at the irony of it. "Everyone was trying to hook him up with these girls so that he would forget about me and I got really jealous and that's when I realized."
Mamoru laughed. "That's pretty funny. I hope you get back before he finds Ms Right. Come on your plane is going to be in soon." He picked up her suite case and turned back around to face her. "You know, if he's as great of a guy as you say he probably won't be around forever. Don't let him slip through your fingers."
Usagi looked up at him. "It's really weird talking to you about this kind of thing."
Mamoru once again laughed at her. "Well we'd better get used to it, you're going to have to give me a lot of girl advice when you get home."
Usagi smiled at him and nodded her head. "I'm glad to see you got rid of that nasty green blazer!"
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Kakyuu (see I promised I 'd put her in!) sat alone at the kitchen table when she heard some one come home. "Hello?" She called out into the other room. Seiya walked into the kitchen when he heard Kakyuu's voice. "Oh, you're home early." She commented as she poured him a cup of tea.
"Yeah, well I guess I'm just not cut out for this dating thing." He accepted the cup and thanked her.
"You do realize that they're not going to let you out of this until they think you're over Usagi."
"I know. Where are they?" He just now realized that Kakyuu must have been home by herself.
"Taiki actually had a date and I have no idea where Yaten is, probably following poor Taiki." Kakyuu shook her head at the thought of Yaten's head popping up from behind some bushes with camo paint on.
Seiya laughed because he too had the same thought. Soon he was on his feet again and searching for the phone. "Hello? Is Oda. I mean Usagi there?" It felt weird to say her name like that.
Usagi's mother was on the other end of the phone. "Mamoru is that you?" She asked.
That one hurt and made Seiya wince. "No mamma, this is Seiya." He replied hesitantly.
"Oh hello, no Usagi isn't here, she actually left a little while ago to go to only god knows where!"
"Thank you."
"I'll tell her you called. Ja."
When Seiya hung up the phone he looked over at Kakyuu who was just shaking her head at the table. "What?"
"You called her as soon as you got in the door from going out on a date with another girl, you don't think that is a little weird?"
"No." Seiya said as he put his jacket on and walked out the door.
It was getting cold out now that winter was coming and if you didn't wear your jacket out the wind would cut right through you. It was already dark and not many people were in the park that night and maybe that's why he spotted Usagi sitting on the bench so easily. "Odango? What are you doing here?"
Usagi looked up at him with a smile. "Nothing, I just like to come here and watch the moon."
Seiya took a seat next to her and turned his eyes up to see what she was admiring. It was truly magnificent and he could easily see why she would want to come here and stare at it. Usagi looked over at Seiya as she watched him look up at the round orb. She found herself studying his facial features and thinking how nice they looked bathed in the silver moonlight. He must have felt her staring at him because he asked what was wrong.
"Nothing. I was just thinking."
"Odango, I have a favor to ask you." Seiya continued to look at her, she seemed to be fiddling with a ring on her finger. "Will you do it?"
"Depends on what it is."
"Will you come and hang out with me next weekend so that I don't have to get set up on anymore of these stupid dates?" Usagi wasn't expecting that one. "I mean it wouldn't be like a date or anything, I know how you feel about that, it would just be two friends hanging out. You're the only one who hasn't been trying to set me up and I just need a break from it and if they see that I already have plans maybe they'll leave me alone." It was the truth, he wasn't just trying to think of excuses to get her to come over.
"I wish I could but I can't." Usagi looked down again at the ring she was playing with.
"Why not? I told you it was only a friend thing."
"No, that's not it. I'm going to America next weekend. I'm going to be staying there for a week actually. Mamo doesn't have classes because there it is some holiday called Thanksgiving, since he is coming home at Christmas time he didn't want to come home for this holiday too so I decided to go there and see him." Usagi looked up from her ring to see Seiya's face. "I'm sorry, I'm sure you can find some one else to do that with."
Seiya looked down at his watch and faked surprise. "Well look at the time, I've got to go! See you at school Monday." He called as he began running off in the night.
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"We couldn't set him up on any dates this weekend, we were all too busy with practice, but next weekend is a different story!" Yaten snickered.
Yaten, Taiki, Makoto, Ami, Minako and Usagi were all sitting around enjoying their lunches, well actually Usagi was enjoying everyone's lunch. "Where is Seiya?" Usagi asked as she sampled some of Ami's lunch. She was actually scared to try Yaten's, she wasn't sure if he had made it himself and didn't want to take the chance.
"I don't know, probably trying to pick up some girl before we set him up with one again." Yaten noticed Usagi looking at his lunch with displeasure.
Seiya was picking up girls now? For some reason this actually hurt Usagi. 'Why would I care if he's trying to pick up girls? It's not like I'm with him or anything.' She thought to herself.
The days went on, Monday Seiya had a date with another questionable girl that Yaten had set him up with. Usagi found herself picking apart every little thing that was wrong with her. Was she becoming jealous? No.
Tuesday Seiya had a date with an intellectual girl that Taiki and Ami had set him up with together. Usagi thought about how much smarter and sophisticated this girl was than her. Why was she comparing herself to the girls Seiya was dating. Was she becoming jealous? No. well.
Wednesday Seiya had a date with a sports oriented girl that Minako had set him up with from the volleyball team. Usagi bet that this girl didn't snack all day long and probably took care of herself better than she did. Was she becoming jealous? Maybe a little, but it was just of the girls and what they were that she couldn't be.
Thursday Seiya had a date with a girl from the cooking club that Makoto had set him up with. Usagi thought about the burnt cookies that she always made and how Seiya had imagined her handing him a bag of burnt cookies. He knew she couldn't cook. Was she becoming jealous? Yes.
Friday Seiya had a date with a girl that they had all picked out. She embodied everything that the previous ones had but combined it all in one. She was great. Was she becoming jealous? Extremely!
Saturday morning came and Usagi had all of her bags packed and ready to go. Haruka would be there soon to pick her up to bring her to the airport. Usagi had learned an important lesson from Ami, never tell your friends when you're actually leaving so you don't have to say goodbye. Usagi told everyone that she was leaving at three but it was really noon.
A horn blew outside and it made Usagi jump out of her thoughts. She gathered all of her things and headed down stairs. "Hello Kitten." Haruka said as she took the luggage from the smaller girl.
"All set?" Usagi's mother asked coming in from the living room.
"Yeah, I'll call you when I get there. Bye!" Usagi kissed her mother goodbye as she followed Haruka out the door.
When Haruka had finished putting the bags in the trunk she hopped in next to Usagi and started up the car. For some reason Haruka like to drive without the radio on, but for once this didn't bother Usagi. It gave her a peaceful moment to concentrate on her thoughts. She couldn't wait to see Mamoru and the 'new' man he had become but she also didn't want to leave Seiya behind to the lovesick girls of Japan. She had slowly realized that she had feelings for him over the past week and it tore her apart to see him with other girls. She knew that it was selfish wanting both of them but she couldn't help it.
"This little shit thinks he's hot stuff!" Haruka's voice broke Usagi's thoughts as she noticed a bike weaving in and out of traffic. There were two people on it and the passenger, who had a very petite frame, was holding on tightly to the waist of the driver.
Haruka gunned the car and she heard the engine roar as they cut along the highway coming up to the bike. The bike swerved in front of the car seemingly to egg Haruka on. It worked. No way was she going to let some little bike twerp beat her at a motor race. "Hold on Kitten." Haruka looked over at Usagi with a devilish grin and down shifted the car.
Usagi's head was forced back into the headrest as the sports car went speeding by the bike. When she regained control of her head she looked over and realized that it was Seiya driving the bike. Due to the tint on Haruka's windows, he wouldn't have been able to see that Usagi was in the car, but she was sure he knew it was Haruka driving and that made this even more of a competition.
Seiya dropped the clutch and sped in front again. Usagi could see that every time he used the gas the girl on the back of the bike would cling to him tighter and force her body up against his. This made Usagi even more jealous and now she didn't even want to get on the plane, she wanted to stay here and protect Seiya like he had asked her too.
The race was soon over as Seiya got off at his exit and Haruka congratulated herself. "That little shit is nothing compared to the great Haruka!" She laughed evilly as she pulled up to the airport.
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Usagi's vacation with Mamoru was soon coming to an end and this was her last day with him. They were sitting in his dorm room while Usagi got her things together to leave. She had actually had tons of fun coming to America and hanging out with Mamoru. As she had thought he was a totally different person and she liked it. She would hang out with him every day if he would stay like this but the problem was she knew she could never fall in love with him if he would stay like this.
"Do you mind if I don't write to you every single day like I have been? It's hard to find the time." Usagi didn't know how he would react to this but she wasn't that worried.
"I would have thought you had plenty of time in detention!" He laughed at her and she had to join him. "But seriously, no I don't mind. Actually there was something I wanted to talk to you about."
Uh oh. people just don't say that kind of thing when some one is about to leave to go home. "Oh yeah, and what would that be?" Usagi asked already knowing it wasn't good.
Mamoru laughed. "Well I think we can both say that I've changed a bit."
"Are you going to break up with me?" Usagi asked putting her suitcase to the side.
"Usagi, don't act like this is a big surprise or something. I know you've been having the same feelings as me." Mamoru tried to defend himself. "I wasn't sure if this was what I wanted so I decided to wait and tell you after we got to spend some time together again. Now that we have I realize that it wouldn't work out."
"What do you mean you know I was having the same feelings?" It was true but how did he know about what she was thinking? She had never told anyone.
Mamoru walked over to his desk and pulled out a stack of letters rubber banded together neatly. (This is Mamoru of course we're talking about here!) "Read these letters you sent me and tell me if you find one that doesn't mention Seiya Kou's name in them." He tossed the lump of letters on her lap. "I'm not mad, I understand because the same thing happened to me."
Mamoru sat down on the bed next to Usagi who just looked at the letters in shock. Mamoru had figured out her heart before she did. "But what about our future? What about Chibi-Usa?" Usagi's voice was pleading.
"I knew the time would come when I would have to confess." Mamoru put an arm around Usagi which she quickly slumped off. "There is no Chibi-Usa, there never was."
"WHAT!!" Usagi looked like she had just stuck her finger in an electric socket. "Then how do you explain that little girl with pig tails that calls herself our daughter?"
Mamoru took a deep breath in and began the story. "Chibi-Usa's name isn't Chibi-Usa. She is Ami's daughter from the future. Sailor Pluto came to me before Chibi-Usa came to tell me that you would fall in love with some one else in the future and that we wouldn't be together. It broke my heart to hear this and so I thought of ways to keep you with me. I asked Pluto to find a little girl that I could pretend was my daughter so that you would see that we had a future together. When she did I put her hair up like yours. That is also why I originally broke up with you back then. I was still so hurt from hearing this news that I couldn't face you." Usagi was crying by now.
"I can't believe you and Pluto lied to me all of these years." She sobbed. "That can't be true, how could that girl transform and use the silver crystal?"
"She could transform because she was a senshi and that wasn't a real silver crystal, it was just a hunk of gem. Those were her powers. If you and I actually had a daughter she wouldn't have been a senshi. Only two senshi's can create a new senshi otherwise the sailor crystals would just keep being reborn. Think about it this way, at least you get to see that little girl you fell in love with in the future." Mamoru tried to comfort her, but she really didn't seem that upset, more pissed.
"I don't understand. How can two senshi's create a child when they're all female?"
Mamoru gave Usagi a twisted look. "They're all females? So who is this Seiya Kou guy you've been talking about?"
Then it hit Usagi. The Lights. That means that Ami had a child with one of them in the future. Usagi smiled as she could only imagine Ami with Taiki and thought of how perfect they were together. "I'm still amazed that you figured out what was going through my head before I did."
"Why? Don't tell me you just figured it out?"
"Yeah, actually I did. Right before I came here." She laughed at the irony of it. "Everyone was trying to hook him up with these girls so that he would forget about me and I got really jealous and that's when I realized."
Mamoru laughed. "That's pretty funny. I hope you get back before he finds Ms Right. Come on your plane is going to be in soon." He picked up her suite case and turned back around to face her. "You know, if he's as great of a guy as you say he probably won't be around forever. Don't let him slip through your fingers."
Usagi looked up at him. "It's really weird talking to you about this kind of thing."
Mamoru once again laughed at her. "Well we'd better get used to it, you're going to have to give me a lot of girl advice when you get home."
Usagi smiled at him and nodded her head. "I'm glad to see you got rid of that nasty green blazer!"
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